Systems & Technology

Information Technology & ERP

Year 2001, Journey of SAP started in Usha International Ltd. with roll-out of SAP R/3 Version 4.6C across all locations leaving behind the legacy application.

16 Sales Office, 1 Plant and 20 Godown were brought on private wide area network (VPN) to get the benefit of centralized SAP application hosted on robust and reliable IBM iSeries servers at corporate office.

The core areas of the business were mapped in SAP with three modules i.e SD,MM, FI/CO and later added Country India Version (CIN) & PP module. The effective adoption of SAP has brought standardization of process & methodology provides enhanced productivity.

Last year, the ERP system has been upgraded to the latest version i.e mySAP ERP-2005(ECC6) alongwith the robust and reliable iSeries servers from IBM. Company has gone for both technical and functional upgrade with new and enhanced functionalities of the system.

With the enhancement of SAP application, the network setup also been upgraded from PSTN to dedicated broadband link at most of the godown locations, to ensure effective and secure utilization of new / enhanced SAP functionalities and better response time.

Supplier Relation Management ( SRM) software has been integrated with the ERP system to enable online interaction with large vendors over the Internet.

Similarly Online Service support software has been introduced at company’s authorized service center to ensure the faster and prompt response to our valuable customer.

Security of Information system is accorded top priority, A third party ISO17799 audit was carried last year and comprehensive IT Security policy framed, which is monitored and adhered to, so as to ensure that its business operations are not compromised.